I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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